Endnote 4 – Knocking on Heaven’s Gate

Tosefta H|Dagiga 2.3–4; trans. revised from Halperin, Faces of the Chariot, p. 31. On the mystical connotations of this text, see J.M. Baumgarten, “The Qumran Sabbath Shirot and Rabbinic Merkabah Traditions,” Revue de Qumran 13 (1988), pp. 209–213.